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Find out more about Sara: Sara McGrath, author of Unschooling: A Lifestyle of Learning, lives near Seattle with her husband and three homeschooling daughters. She contributes regularly to Suite101, Helium, and various online publications, and has written for print magazines including South Florida Parenting, The Mop Rag, and AIM. Her email address is msaraann@gmail.com. |
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Unschooling Examiner's Recommendations
Resources / Websites
Printable checklists for preschool through high school learning standards.
Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALR) for Washington state home-based education students.
Wonder Excursions is a new field trip club open to all homeschoolers.
Both public school students and homeschoolers can use educational alternatives such as alternative schools, virtual schools, and parent partnership programs (PPP).
Networking sites for homeschool families.
The Teaching Parents Association, known as TPA, includes over one hundred member families from all over Washington.
Products
Over 40,000 families across the nation take advantage of the collective purchasing power of Homeschool Buyers Co-op. Membership is free.
Unschooling is a lifestyle of learning.
See what Galileo saw with the Galileoscope.
The Parents' Choice Foundation helps parents choose products that provide creative and playful learning opportunities for children.
Recommended sources of educational supplies.
Parent-moderated YouTube videos safe for kids.
Businesses
Timberdoodle, Co., a family business in Shelton, Washington, sells hand-selected homeschool supplies and curricula.
Homeschoolers can save money at the following Seattle area stores.
P Crew's Write Way to Learn educational tools are designed to help children ages 3 to 8 learn to read and write according to their own personal learning style--visual, auditory, or tactile.
Over 40,000 families across the nation take advantage of the collective purchasing power of Homeschool Buyers Co-op. Membership is free.
Places
New homeschoolers often worry about the potential cost of homeschooling. Some Seattle homeschoolers say that the library is
Zoos and aquariums can help children learn about animals and their habitats.
The Children and Nature Network has compiled numerous studies which address why nature-based learning is important to children's development.
People
Author and speaker discusses unschooling and culture.
Each month, Do Life Right features interviews with unschooling families.
Seven-year-old Duvall homeschooler and cub scout, Keaton Kowal, wrote a letter to President Obama that was selected for publication.
Sarah Comer, a member of the Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association, took first place in the young adult division.
Recognition of local homeschoolers.
Documentary filmmaker Astra Taylor was unschooled.
- Unschooling Lifestyle
- Unschooling Free Online Course
- Unschooling and Whole Life Learning
- Unschooling America
- Unschooling United
- Radical Unschooling with the Law of Attraction
- Shine With Unschooling Group
- Unschooling Liliaguide Group
- Radical Unschoolers Network
- Joyfully Rejoycing
- Unschooling.com
- Sandra Dodd
- Danielle Conger
- Connections ezine
- Life Learning Magazine
- ABCs of Unschooling
- Homeschooling in Seattle
- Helium Education and Homeschool articles and debates
- The Homeschooling Group
- Best Homeschooling
- John Holt and Growing Without Schooling
- Home Education Magazine
- Life Without School
- Freedom to Learn
- Homeschool.com Podcasts
- Homeschool Resources via Twitter
- Homeschool Humor, Satire, Criticisms, and Comebacks
- World Book Curriculum Standards
- Free curriculum standards checklists
- WA Home-Based Instruction Regulations
- WA State Standards EALRs
- WA Online Grade Level Standards
- HSLDA Washington Laws
- Academy Northwest Parent Qualifying Courses
- Family Learning Organization Testing
- The HomeScholar High School
- Seattle Public Library
- King County Library System
- KCLS Free Online Tutoring
- Social Networking for Homeschoolers
- Washington Homeschool Organization
- Radical Unschooling in Washington
- RUN Washington Radical Unschoolers
- Radical Unschoolers of Washington
- Washington Home Education Network
- Washington Secular Homeschoolers
- Washington Relaxed Homeschoolers
- WashingtonHomeschool
- Special Homeschoolers of WA
- HomeschoolsLikeUs Washington
- Wonder Excursions
- Woodland Park Zoo
- Seattle Aquarium
- Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
- Seattle Art Museum
- Space Needle Sky School
- KidsQuest Children's Museum
- Second Story Repertory Theatre
- South 47 Farm
- Northwest Art Center
- Duvall Performing Arts
- Snoqualmie Valley Music
- Mike's School of Rock and Blues
- Wilderness Awareness School
- Tracks and Tales Nature School
- Enso Center Martial Arts (Homeschool Classes)
- Children's Technology Workshop
- Seattle Children's Theatre Homeschool Days
- Foothills Academy fiber arts and piano
- Homeschooling for Beginners Bookstore
- Homeschool Buyers Co-op
- Edify Auctions for Homeschooling Families
- Timberdoodle Homeschool Supplies
- Think Tonight Homeschool Supplies
- A Golden Guide Series of field guides
- FUN Books and more
- Random House Children's Books
- Scholastic Teaching Resources
- Find Your Usborne Books Consultant
- Wikispaces for Educators
- Connexions open-source online learning
- Homeschool Launch file sharing
- Wikiversity online learning
- Bilingual Spanish websites for children
- Learn to read websites
- Internet safety websites and child browsers
- Kid-safe YouTube video interface
- Firefox with Glubble family browser
- The TUKI Browser for Kids
- Alfie Kohn
- Authentic Family Living
- Enjoy Parenting
- The Natural Child Project
- Naomi Aldort
- Parenting Science
- Natural Parenting Lilaguide Group
- Unconditional Parenting Lilaguide Group
- Conventional Parenting May Increase Unhappiness
- Time In: A Compassionate Alternative to Time-Out
- The Problem of Peer Orientation
- Nurturing a Child's Intuition
- Meditating with Children
- How to Boost a Child's Immune System
- Alternative Vaccination Schedules
- Washington Toxics Coalition
- Train at Home to Work at Home
